Needlessly condemned to ever-deteriorating public acute hospital service

The failure to invest in essential acute hospital services and the blatant breach of the 2008 Consultants Contract combined with the persistent discrimination against newentrant consultants have seriously undermined the capacity of our acute services, writes Martin Varley, Secretary General of the I...

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Published inIrish Medical Times Vol. 52; no. 18; p. II
Main Author Varley, Martin
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Sutton Irish Medical Times 05.10.2018
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Summary:The failure to invest in essential acute hospital services and the blatant breach of the 2008 Consultants Contract combined with the persistent discrimination against newentrant consultants have seriously undermined the capacity of our acute services, writes Martin Varley, Secretary General of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) They represent serious mistakes by the State which will adversely impact on services for decades unless rectified, the Secretary General of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) Martin Varley, writes. The stark reality is that public hospital care is being irreparably damaged due to the increasing number of approved permanent consultant posts that cannot be filled year after year as a consequence of the discriminatory salary cuts imposed by the State on new consultants. The NDP provides €10.9 billion to fund capacity expansion between 2018 and 2027 including an additional 2,600 acute hospitals beds and 4,500 long-stay beds.
ISSN:0047-147X